A comment on the recent article about the Bali release of Googles WebM tools (libvpx) claimed that one of the biggest problems facing the adoption of WebM video was the slow speed of the encoder as compared to x264. This article sets out to benchmark the encoder against x264 to see if this is indeed true and if so, how significant the speed difference really is.

His point -- which I happen to agree with -- is that you overuse links. A whole gathering of links just makes it feel like you yourself have no insight to provide whatsoever and thus makes your comment seem irrelevant.

His point -- which I happen to agree with -- is that you overuse links. A whole gathering of links just makes it feel like you yourself have no insight to provide whatsoever and thus makes your comment seem irrelevant.

As I said ... you don't have to read the links. As I also said, if I don't provide links, people just moan that whatever I say is unsupported.

I'm between a rock and a hard place here, damned if I do and damned if I don't provide links.

I have adopted the policy of providing the links as backup for what I say. Normally this quells then number of people who challenge what I say, but not always. On balance, links are better than no links.

You typically provide a bunch of redundant links that no one cares about.

When it comes to providing links less is more. It seems that half the time you are filling your posts with links to add gravitas but people would probably take them more seriously if you shortened them and got to the point.